Iron Wills
About Iron Wills
Fredrik Mack owns the glue factory in a fishing village in northern Norway and runs the district. His telegraph operator, Ove Rolandsen, lives with the fisherman Levion and has cooked up a better glue, which Mack will not buy. Ove uses the affection of Marie van Loos, the priest's housekeeper. When Mack's daughter Elise comes home from Kristiania, Ove courts her, and so does Captain Henriksen. At a party Henriksen pushes a drunken Ove into proposing. Elise laughs at him, and Mack throws him out. Ove serenades Marie and wakes up engaged to her. After a burglary at Mack's, 300 kronor gone, Ove falsely confesses so he can collect the reward offered for naming the thief. He and Mack later form the firm Mack & Rolandsen, with Ove as director. Elise and Ove hold out, then marry.
Cast & crew
More about Iron Wills
John W. Brunius directed and wrote this free adaptation of Knut Hamsun's novel Dreamers (Sværmere). Hugo Edlund photographed it. Axel Esbensen designed the sets. It was shot at Råsunda in Stockholm and on location in Norway, and released March 5, 1923. The Swedish title is Hårda viljor. Wikidata gives 67 minutes.
Themes
Making
Svensk Filmindustri built the factory world at Råsunda and sent the company to Norway for the village exteriors.
Look
Hugo Edlund shot the Råsunda interiors and the Norway locations.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons under the Swedish title.
Notes
- Gustaf Ranft plays Mack, Eugen Skjønberg plays Ove, and Lilla Bye plays Elise.
- Linnéa Hillberg and Torsten Hillberg are billed with them. The Swedish Film Database plot names Marie van Loos and Captain Henriksen without tying every actor to a role.
- Mack is called Store Mack in the Swedish synopsis.
- The stolen sum is 300 kronor.
- The new company is Mack & Rolandsen, and Ove is made director.
Scenes
- Elise laughs off the proposal Henriksen pushed Ove into.
- Ove confesses to a burglary he did not commit and takes the reward.
Influenced by
- Knut Hamsun's novel Dreamers
